[f_minor] [f minor] More unreleased GG material coming out

[Pat]

Dear all

When Jörgen’s mail came in I felt a bit ashamed. After all this is annus mirabilis and indeed we won’t see such a good year for GG releases in quite a while I reckon.

So I headed over to Sony Glassical’s german website and found this:

      27 Columbia original albums with facsimile sleeves and labels 
      3 Columbia special releases 
      4 CDs with radio and TV broadcast recordings 
      1 CD with outtakes from his 1955 Goldberg recording sessions 
      3 interview CDs featuring Gould in conversation with John McClure and Tim Page 
      3 DVDs with CBC television broadcasts from 1957 to 1970 including the complete previously unreleased „Well-Tempered Listener“ 
      3 DVDs „Glenn Gould plays Bach“ by Bruno Monsaingeon, including the legendary Goldberg Variations 
      192-page book with complete liner notes to each LP and a new introduction by Gould biographer Michael Stegemann 
      Many previously unpublished photos

      plus the complete track list:
      http://klassik.sonymusic.de/Glenn-Gould/Glenn-Gould-Bach-Edition/P/2637720

      and the tracklist of the Monsagenon DVD set
      http://klassik.sonymusic.de/Glenn-Gould/Gould-Plays-Bach-Dvd/P/2646630

      Now if you are new to Gouldland or your collection is somewhat incomplete the Bach box set would be a fantastic investment I reckon. 

      For those of us who are either collectors, completists or hardcore fans will probably wonder what this is all about. (Dare I say this smells a bit like a rip-off ? Is there something really new here ? Summet I should have ? I dunno....)

      The Monsagenon DVDs might be of interest since this is the first time they appear on DVD.

      Sony Classical Germany does not list the Mozart DVD yet. I want to see that. Who could resist watching GG demystify Wolferl ? 

      Pat

      Goldberg Variations and Fractals
      http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9498490917D391DD&feature=plcp 


From: Kristian Johansson 
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 9:27 PM
To: Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. 
Subject: Re: [f_minor] [f minor] More unreleased GG material coming out

Hi,



I for one am glad to have this list for learning about new releases and new books also for that matter. And there has been a lot of new material appearing lately! This is a good time to be gould-fanatic and gould-music collector.

The Well-Tempered Listener alone makes the new Bach-box worth buying for me. (still unconfirmed if it indeed is on the discs though) For a company like Sony it would be quite easy to make a search on Google with the keywords:"sony glenn gould edition" to render a link to a detailed description of the contents. But they have other ways of promoting the box apparently... Or?

Regarding the 12 Goldberg-discs I do not have any information on that whatsoever, but I would be glad if at least a part of them turned out to be out-takes.



/Kristian 



On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Jörgen Lundmark <jorgen.lundmark at mypost.se> wrote:

  Hello Stephanie,

  I'm glad you and some others did react.

  I agree that the Bach collection will be worth having. The additional, unreleased video is probably the parts from "The Well-Tempered Listeners" that weren't part of the big box. It includes, among other things, for its time advanced multi-screen experiments with Gould playing a section from a 4-voiced fugue with one hand to each voice. The interview is also worth having.

  I'm no expert how to promote classical music, but I do think that it should be possible to search the Sony site and find information about coming Gould releases and what is previously unreleased. As it is now you have to piece together the less than accurate listings at different on-line shops. Is that good business on Sony's part I wonder?

  Regards,
  Jorgen 


    Jorgen, I thank you so very much for those links. The complete Bach collection seem to be an extraordinary deal, no? I will probably purchase it. I am shocked, too, at the lack of eager reactions concerning the Mozart DVD. It is an absolute treasure. I cannot wait until it arrives in the mail from France. I unfortunately have no insight to offer into the lack of promotion on Sony's part. How might they advertise it? Where would one advertise Glenn Gould material?
    Stephanie












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